From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752622AbZHIWXI (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:23:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751112AbZHIWXH (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:23:07 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f196.google.com ([209.85.222.196]:60914 "EHLO mail-pz0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751183AbZHIWXG (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:23:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FuNaN4oqKymH22zlqEZoN2YopBBGsHhHHzo+/sU5yXWhBgpNe240cEDySL9dS8tMsA gfOp6P74Fn1zhg1gxIMtTIp6VPUy3COQW08HZlF/Uv6ERsjx03plk6rPjdoF/l6t28pD SDxR46J0wlNxFXgHTDevtMgqQI1hBHMbscqnU= Message-ID: <4A7F4C59.5030704@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:23:21 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Spicebird/0.7.1 (X11; 2009031304) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: *** stack smashing detected ***: ./firefox-bin terminated References: <4A7F04B2.5000201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A7F04B2.5000201@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Hancock wrote: > On 08/08/2009 04:31 PM, Justin Mattock wrote: >> How should I handle this: >> >> *** stack smashing detected ***: ./firefox-bin terminated >> ======= Backtrace: ========= >> /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f765ab2a477] >> /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0x7f765ab2a440] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f7646911a6f] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f764690d67c] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f764691077f] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76469090cd] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466f95e0] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466f9c1d] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466bd944] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466c738b] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466af3e1] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466a4af0] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f764638ed29] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f764637edaf] >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x7f765bbd477b] >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x22e)[0x7f765bbd320e] >> >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x7f765bbd3958] >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x70)[0x7f765bbd3b40] >> >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765efd07a1] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765efd0b71] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765f08ea79] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765f0628bd] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765efd0883] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765eeaadaf] >> ./libxul.so(XRE_main+0x213f)[0x7f765e812149] >> ./firefox-bin[0x401bc0] >> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xec)[0x7f765aa65a4c] >> ./firefox-bin[0x4019b9] >> >> even if I move the firefox package to /usr/lib64 >> this still occurs. >> >> I would like to keep stack protection, >> but having firefox crash over any flash content >> is unattractive. > > Use nspluginwrapper, then Flash will run in a separate process and it > won't crash Firefox when it crashes (which it does fairly regularly). > >> >> should I try firefox about this, or change something in the kernel? > > Nothing to do with the kernel, it's glibc's stack corruption detection > that's being triggered. > well I tried nspluginwrapper but once it came to compiling nss I gave up. so back to looking at the setup I have right now, it seems either some of the commercials on hulu are stack smashers, and some are not. or there something else happening internally i.g. I usually hit this error, then about after the second go of if(after firefox exiting) movies start and work. (I guess this teaches me to enable stack protection) thanks for the response, (ill just leave it as it is for now). Justin P. Mattock